Bury our hearts in the attic

[sovay]

Me: I'll just print out these poems in preparation for tomorrow night's weird fiction reading.

Printer: *prints all pages mirror-reversed except for the one whose title is in Yiddish*

Me: . . . so we have sheydim in the printer?

My mother: Why not?

(I showed her what had happened by holding the pages up in a mirror. She believes I should do my reading tomorrow from the reversed pages, using a mirror. I am, I think not unreasonably, a little concerned about what I might get if I do.)

Comments

[swan_tower]

That . . . is kind of wonderful. :-D

She believes I should do my reading tomorrow from the reversed pages, using a mirror. I am, I think not unreasonably, a little concerned about what I might get if I do.

Much like the time a friend of ours wrote something for a game by googling "black magic incantation" and then running what he found through Google Translate, this seems like it could be the premise for a short story, or a Monster of the Week episode from some urban fantasy series. :-)

[sovay]

That . . . is kind of wonderful.

I'm honestly not unhappy at all.

Much like the time a friend of ours wrote something for a game by googling "black magic incantation" and then running what he found through Google Translate,

Oh, yeah, that sounds dangerous.

this seems like it could be the premise for a short story, or a Monster of the Week episode from some urban fantasy series.

I'll see what I can do . . .

[shewhomust]

*looks up sheydim*

It would explain quite a bit about the behaviour of printers...

[moon_custafer]

I’ve recently noticed a particular pdf at my workplace, if set up to print landscape, prints portrait, and vice versa.

[dewline]

It just might, at that.

[moon_custafer]

Suddenly recalling a bit near the end of A Canticle for Leibowitz where one of the monks comments that his office printer must actually possess a soul and free will, as it has clearly chosen evil.

[sovay]

It would explain quite a bit about the behaviour of printers...

This would be the perfect opportunity for the phrase "printer's devil" if The Twilight Zone hadn't gotten there first.

[thisbluespirit]

Wow, that is impressive/scary, even for a printer!

I am, I think not unreasonably, a little concerned about what I might get if I do.

Could it make things worse? Might as well give it a try!

[sovay]

Wow, that is impressive/scary, even for a printer!

I'm hanging on to these pages. They're too weird to throw out. Maybe I'll bring them to the rescheduled reading in January.

[ethelmay]

Well, that suggests a new reading of "A green thought in a green sheyd."

[sovay]

Well, that suggests a new reading of "A green thought in a green sheyd."

I like the idea of a demon that got bored and decided to become a dryad.

[cmcmck]

I generally blame trowies when my systems play up- I suspect they're related! :o)

[sovay]

I generally blame trowies when my systems play up- I suspect they're related!

It's a worldwide ecological niche—it would only make sense!

[asakiyume]

This is so freaky and wonderful. The spirits are very near, and they feel like playing.

[sovay]

This is so freaky and wonderful. The spirits are very near, and they feel like playing.

It kind of made my night.

[ethelmay]

I did an advanced Google Book search the other day and got results in Catalan. No idea how. And Twitter once went Basque on me. Both effects went away apparently on their own.

[ashlyme]

This is wonderful. I'm sorry about the reading, though.